MEGA dazzle: does the MAGA playbook apply in Europe?
From the moment that America’s 47th president took his oath of office this Monday, it’s as if national conservatives around the world, together with the opponents…
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Europe as the Cold War order dies: stagnating, fading, failing, lost
Out of the many actions President Donald Trump took on his first day in office, two caught the eyes of Europeans: his announced withdrawal from both the Paris Climate…
Trump to stop all aid to Ukraine? Claptrap
The fantasyland of contemporary Western European notions of the Western Alliance was well-illustrated this week by an article published by the former foreign minister…
The Left used to want ‘net neutrality,’ now they want net censorship
Look back a few years and you will see shifts in political positions that fascinate.
The new EU defence commissioner, not much money, not much influence
No one knows the hazards of the defence portfolio better than Ursula von der Leyen, whose tenure leading the German defence ministry was marked by a failure to improve…
Feminists and ‘justice’: ‘Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them’
Bliss it was that dawn to be alive, but to be old was very heaven.
Musk vs Soros: the internationalists save their outrage for just one
In the theatre of modern politics, where money, power, and influence play out like a high-stakes game of chess, two names consistently rise to the surface of every…
COSCO and the US blacklist: Europe’s ports or Beijing’s tentacles?
The United States has just delivered an almighty wake-up call to Europe, blacklisting China’s state-owned maritime leviathan, COSCO, in a bold stroke that could…
Imperialism not a replacement for good governance, it is its consequence
In this third and final part of our series on neo-Imperialism I would like to start with the most important observation: Successful and lasting imperialism is a…
What did European liberals ever get from trusting Joe Biden?
Next week American President-elect Donald Trump will drop the “elect,” and President Joe Biden will pick up "former” before his name.
Dominion: Trump’s new grand strategy?
With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin D.
Falling birth rates? More than just technocratic, it is a cultural question
Last week Turkey announced that it was introducing a series of incentives designed to increase the Turkish birth rate.
Trump remembers Reagan: let the hostages go or ‘Hell to pay’
Despite the slightly pathetic effort of the departing Biden regime to claim that it is the diligence of the president and his secretary of state that has brought…
Brussels fears Musk, he fights the ancient fight for free speech
The Brussels elite have contended they are defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism at home and abroad.
A director sees only racism in Britain when history offers more
The often overrated Hanna Arendt was bang on the money when she declared that, “Under normal circumstances, the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is…
Fire rips across California because of gender ratios and ethnic quotas
The recent wildfires that have ravaged California are nothing short of apocalyptic -- countless homes and acres of forest turned to ash, tens of lives lost and thousands…
Weidel and Musk: she is personable, reasonable but shows no charisma
If a key characteristic of revolutionaries is their ability to talk for hours without end, then the Alternative for Germany’s Alice Weidel is many things, but…
Greece: corrupt elites bring a nation to its knees, Brussels beware
The numbers from Eurostat’s 2024 report are indisputable and grim: While politicians spin tales of recovery and progress, the cold, hard data tells a very different…
Censorship fog descends on Europe, world cut off
A performative fury erupted across Europe when the dread Elon Musk not only endorsed Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), but agreed to host an extended interview…
Greenland, Canada, Panama: Trump wants them, but can he take them?
This is the kind of news that makes a journalist shiver in excitement. What a story.
Zero evidence: the bogus ‘intelligence’ behind Romania’s cancelled election
On 6 December 2024 Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) cancelled the country’s presidential election while runoff voting was already underway in the diaspora.
US Ambassador to Hungary commits “a low-level slander” as he leaves
I need to write about David Pressman, the outgoing US ambassador to Hungary. This is an unpleasant job.
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EU Socialists demand crackdown on Musk’s ‘manipulation’ of European politics
Europe's Socialist parties are urging the EU to act against Elon Musk's X platform, citing concerns over his alleged manipulation of politics and support for far-right…
The mass rape of young girls, British establishment says, ‘So what?’
The grooming gang scandal in Britain has been a long time coming and while aspects of it and some allegations may be excessive (or not), it lifts the rock on the…
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the devil so dear to French republican elites
From his antisemitic provocations to his controversial ideological references and personal ties with fascist, collaborationist, or neo-Nazi militants, the founder…
Vulgarity, crime, rapes, coarsening of public life, liberal England is gone
This year sees the ninetieth anniversary of the publication of a book called The Strange Death of Liberal England by the Anglo-American historian George Dangerfield.
Gang rape: Starmer did not stand across the scandal and yell ‘Stop!’
The grooming gangs in Rotherham -- let us just say Rotherham and let it also cover Rochdale, Manchester, Telford, Oldham and dozens of other British cities and towns…
Austrian voters sick of fakery, they want Kickl, the real thing
In 2023, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer appeared before a raucous crowd in a beer tent, proudly chugging a beer in one go.
The EU in 2025: A union at the crossroads of chaos
The year is 2025. Europe’s grand experiment is not looking so grand anymore.
EU leads to the Molenbeek Fallacy: luscious benefits but no national pride
The good secular rationalists who founded the European project after the horrors of the Second World War believed that political stability could be restored by meeting…